Media Monday Edmonton: Update #124

Big news over at 630 CHED: Ed Mason has announced his retirement! He started his career back in 1963, and came to Edmonton in 1975 where he hosted the morning news and served as news director on CHQT until 2005 when he made the move to CHED.

Also, The Afternoon News with J’lyn Nye and Mark Scholz recently celebrated one year on the air. Congrats!

A follow-up on the question about CBC’s programming! They will regularly switch from local to provincial radio news on holidays, and recently switched to provincial radio and TV news on weekends, produced out of Edmonton. That might be why there was some confusion.

I was fortunate to be part of a small group of Edmontonians invited to meet with Bill Chambers, CBC’s Vice-President Brand, Communications, and Corporate Affairs, to discuss A space for us all, CBC’s strategy for 2020. One of the strategy’s key elements is a commitment to local news. I’ll be writing more about the meeting and the strategy in a future update!